MAKE ROOM FOR CATS Elementary.To motivate the students for this lesson, I start by asking them about their cats. I have them visualize what their cat might be doing right this minute, and explain that they are going to draw and paint their cat in a room of their house. I demonstrate how to create a room on paper by dividing a piece of 9 x 12" white paper horizontally into two parts, representing the floor and the wall. This line can be moved up or down depending on the room. First, using images of cats in various positions and poses, we practice drawing. To create the fur effect and the coloring of students' cats, watercolor paints are used. On a separate sheet of 9 x 12" watercolor paper, we use the wet-on-wet technique to blend and bleed Printing at the very edge of the paper. Many laser printers, including all LaserJets up to the 11x17" 4V, cannot print to the very edge, leaving a border of approximately 1/4". In commercial printing, bleeding is generally more expensive, because wider paper is often used, which is later paints together. Students select the color that best resembles their cat's coloring: for example, they might choose orange, yellow and brown paint for calico cats calico cat: see cat. calico cat In North America, a blotched or spotted domestic cat, usually predominantly white with red and black patches (a pattern also called tortoiseshell-and-white). . White areas can be left unpainted, and spots can be produced by just letting the tip of the paintbrush (graphics, tool) Paintbrush - A Microsoft Windows tool for creating bitmap graphics. touch the wet paper and spread out. We let these dry. Next, we discuss the room their cat is in. Size and proportion must be considered for any items in the room. Each student selects a piece of wallpaper wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made , approximately 4 x 12", to use for the background wall. This piece can be glued across the top of a 9 x 12" oak tag board. A 5 x 12" piece of brown paper is glued on the bottom half to represent the floorboards. The final step is to transfer the cat drawing onto the watercolor painting watercolor painting, in its wider sense, refers to all pigments mixed with water rather than with oil and also to the paintings produced by this process; it includes fresco and tempera as well as aquarelle, the process now commonly meant by the generic term. . We tape the painting to a window and slip the cat drawing underneath. I encourage them to move the drawing around until they find a painted area that looks like the fur coloring they want. After they find the right spot, they simply trace their drawing onto the watercolor painting, outline it in black marker, and cut it out. The cats are now ready to be placed in their rooms. ClipCard submitted by Marlene Wahila, an elementary art teacher at Tioga Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Tioga Center, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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